Why Did ‘The Call of the Wild’ Cost $125 Million? It’s a Mid-Budget Film that Caught Budget-itis (Column)

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Why Did ‘The Call of the Wild’ Cost $125 Million? It’s a Mid-Budget Film that Caught Budget-itis (Column)
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“The Call of the Wild” is a cozy, square, kind-of-synthetic, kind-of-touching canine adventure movie that a lot of critics were probably too harsh about, all because it has a CG dog. Do…

, especially once Harrison Ford, as soft as he is gruff, comes into the picture . The movie is just what you’d expect: calendar-art wilderness settings, old-school ’60s-Disney-nature-film bobsled drama, a cast of human actors who, with the exception of Ford, get swallowed up by the scenery.Popular on Variety

This weekend, “The Call of the Wild” did more business than many observers expected, which only goes to show that there’s still a hunger for a sweetly traditional and wholesome dog-meets-man movie. But given the budget, even the film’s relatively successful opening of $24.8 million may not be good enough. “The Call of the Wild” is an example of a new phenomenon: the “mid-budget film” with a budget that got swelled like an overfed goose liver. The mid-budget film that caught budget-itis..

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